Comment by roryirvine

7 hours ago

It's been a problem for a decade (or more?) but, for me, it's not just the sharp edge, it's also the angle of the keyboard.

My Dell XPS is almost as sharp (there's a microscopic chamfer, which won't be enough to explain the difference), but because the body is wedge-shaped, the keyboard sits at a slight angle which makes it feel so much better to me. Propping the back of the Macbook on something helps - only needs to be 2-3mm to make a difference.

It's like the static electricity issues that plagued them in the 2010s. They produced shocks that were actually painful, the sort that I've only experienced before from CRT screens in metal housings. The chargers contained a grounding pin internally, but it wasn't actually connected to anything. Utter madness, and would have been such an easy thing to fix - but it persisted until they replaced the charging port with usb-c.

a positively angled keyboard is actually less ergonomic (at least for most people), and a holdover from typewriters.

> The chargers contained a grounding pin internally, but it wasn't actually connected to anything. Utter madness

That is standard procedure in consumer electronics actually.

My work MBP is charged via external display and sure enough, I get zapped every now and then. The bundled charger also has just two pins.